Update 11 - Marketplace..

The last two days we have been unable to go to schools because the typhoon closed them down. Yesterday we were able to go to a prison, the market place and a mall to preach and hand out pamphlets about Jesus. We got turned down to go into the hospital because it was highly Catholic and they only wanted deacons in there, etc. As we were waiting outside, we watched them bring a dead girl out and put her into a truck. Suddenly a woman near us started wailing uncontrollably. It turned out that her 17 year old granddaughter, her daughter, and her son in law died from food poisoning. They ate eggplant that was dipped in flour to fry- but the flower had insecticides in it and they were unaware. This is a problem in the Philippines because sometimes they do not separate the food products from the insecticide. It is very scary and made me so sad. The people at the hospital just seemed so depressed, and there was no prayer in there taking place. I wish we could have gotten the opportunity to go in there and speak to them! Not only were there dying people physically, but there were many dying spiritually. The hospital is just so much different then in the U.S. Some of us were talking about how tough it would be to have a child in a third world country. Then we thought of what Mrs. Tebow went through when she was here having Tim. If the hospitals are not up to par now, I can't imagine how they were 23 years ago. Missionaries have children overseas often but the chances of problems occurring certainly rises!


At the market place I was blessed to have led a few teenage girls to Christ right in the square. I witnessed to them about Jesus and then prayed with them and made sure they knew you do not get to heaven and have eternal life by works. It is only through the blood of Jesus and what he did for us on the cross that we are saved. Mr Tebow made a great point last night to us about Romans 6. Jesus did not just die for us as Romans 3 says, but in Romans 6 we died WITH Jesus. Therefore, our old sin nature dies. We are no longer slaves to sin. He made the point that Jeffrey Dalmmer, the serial killer killed probably over 300 people while he was alive. But once he was put to death, he could no longer sin. He is no longer on trial now and can't hurt anyone because he is dead. Spiritually, this is what happens when we die with Jesus. The bible says we died "with him", so we are no longer under the law once we accept Jesus. If we continually think upon our death with Jesus, we don't feel the need to be given over to the sinful desires as much. But if we choose to think upon sin then we have the choice to let ourselves be given to it. It is up to us.